Photo Essay: Wood – a Story from the Olympic Peninsula (Pt. I)

Wood; a precious commodity. Cut, sawed, shaped, nailed, lacquered, stained. Occasionally it’s replanted, and years later, generations gone, money is made again. Wood is money. The forests are for sale, for their resources, for their lands, for their habitat. The following images are the start of a multimedia project telling the tale of wood, from origin to combustion, and the phases of transition in-between. How does it effect us? How does it feed us? How is the life under our feet and that above our heads impacted today, tomorrow and those generations ahead?